I got a flat on the rear tire of my bike this week. In the past I was always prepared for such a thing, but it’s been a long time since I had a flat in the field. I was completely unprepared! No tire levers, patch kit, or spare tube! I need to be less complacent.

We made it back to Seattle tonight. We left my parents house yesterday and stayed in a hotel in Des Moines. Today we drove to Kansas City and got a direct flight back to Seattle. We were justified in taking this long drive to an airport, but I’m too tired to write about it.

In late 2017, I was the manager of a team of infrastructure software developers. I was having a difficult time at work finding time to learn and grow technically, which created a deep longing to do more programming and learn something new. I settled on trying out Rust.

Going Nowhere Fast on Climate, Year After Year contains a high-level summary of the last thirty years of climate change discovery, policy, coordinated denial, and recent rollbacks by the climate change deniers in the Executive Branch. It’s worth reading through the entire piece. Here is a selection of some of the points:

Rust 2018 was the Rust v1.31.0 release on December 6. I read through the release notes shortly after it was released, but just now finally read through Rust 2018 is here… but what is it? to get another perspective on it.

The four of us are beginning a journey to Iowa tomorrow and will be there a couple days past the new year. We are doing something a little crazy to get there: we are taking the train. The chance for this to go sideways is pretty high, but in spite of that, I am not dreading the trip.

I read quite a few articles about climate change, but I don’t write about many of them. Still, I want to keep track of some of these pages, in case I want to refer back to them. I’ve created two pages to do this: Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration.

The 2018 Rust Annual Survey results are out. All of it was interesting to read through it, but I was interested to see the questions around adoption in the workplace. I’m not sure what it is about Rust, but I like the language and the community around it. I sort of feel like I am part of it, even though I’m really a leaf node.